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By bfwebster on Nov 3, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity, Training | 0 Comments
I’ve written previously about the “Dead Sea effect“, in which your best IT engineers and managers leave over time, leaving behind an IT staff that is slowly becoming less competent and effective. Obviously, to counteract the Dead Sea effect, you want to hold onto your best IT people. My two latest Baseline columns talk about [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 18, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Risk management | 0 Comments
First, my apologies for the slow posting here and at brucefwebster.com over the past few months. It’s pretty bad when my last two posts have each covered my last two Baseline columns. But I’ve got some new material to start posting here as well, and will do so. In the meantime, I have two new [...]
By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major IT project and yet still nickle-and-dime their software quality assurance (SQA) effort. It doesn’t help that SQA personnel are pretty much [...]
By bfwebster on Sep 11, 2008 in Main, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
As mentioned previously, I spoke last week at the Denver IEEE Reliabilty Society chapter meeting on an SQA-centric view of software development. I plan to develop this into a full-blown articles (or posting), but in the meantime, here is the slide presentation (PPT, 340KB) I used. Feel free to ask questions. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Aug 29, 2008 in Admin, Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Maintenance, Technology | 0 Comments
If it’s Friday, it must be another Baseline column. This one talks about the issues surrounding whether to build or buy software: The other day, an IT colleague of mine mentioned a conflict at a corporation where he’s working. The corporation has a mission-critical application deployed across a large number of workstations. The set of [...]